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Latest News in Legal Ethics

  • July 02, 2026

    Netflix Says 'Exceptional Misconduct' Merits $3M In Atty Fees

    Netflix urged a California federal judge on Thursday to order a Finnish national and his former Ramey LLP attorney to pay $3 million in legal fees due to "exceptional misconduct" and "fraud," saying both knew the plaintiff didn't own an asserted patent and so lacked standing to sue.

  • July 02, 2026

    Meta Hit With Textbook Authors' IP Suit Over AI Training

    Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of feeding copyrighted textbooks into its Llama large language model to train the artificial intelligence product without getting permission from or compensating the textbooks' authors.

  • July 02, 2026

    Texas Medical Board Says AG Can't Swap Teams In Suit

    The Texas Medical Board asked a state court to bar the Texas attorney general from intervening in a case of a doctor who tried to treat a COVID-19 patient with ivermectin, saying the attorney general previously represented the board and cannot switch sides.

  • July 02, 2026

    Fla. High Court Slaps Fake Immigration Atty With Probation

    The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a split opinion handing down a five-month term of probation and a suspended jail sentence to a Miami woman for practicing as an unlicensed immigration attorney after she admitted violating previous orders prohibiting her from the same conduct. 

  • July 02, 2026

    Paralegals Take NC Legal Advice Law Challenge To 4th Circ.

    Two paralegals and a nonprofit have asked the Fourth Circuit to revive their challenge to a North Carolina law that blocks nonlawyers from providing legal advice.

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